Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience.

My attitude towards the British is one of utter friendliness and respect.

Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.

Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will.